Abiel Foster

Abiel Foster (8 August 1735-6 February 1806) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-NH 1) from 23 June 1789 to 4 March 1791 (preceding Jeremiah Smith) and from NH 4 from 4 March 1795 to 4 March 1803 (succeeding Paine Wingate and preceding David Hough).

Biography
Abiel Foster was born in Andover, Massachusetts on 8 August 1735, and he became a pastor in Canterbury in 1761, serving until 1779. From 1783 to 1785, he served as a New Hampshire delegate to the Continental Congress, and he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1789 to 1791 and from 1795 to 1803 as a Federalist. He died in 1806.